Enabling and Managing Microsoft Office 365 -
M20347 Course Outline

(5 Days)

Overview

About This Course

This is a 5-day instructor-led training (ILT) course that targets the needs of IT professionals who take part in evaluating, planning, deploying, and operating Office 365 services, including its identities, dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies. This course focuses on skills required to set up an Office 365 tenant, including federation with existing user identities, and skills required to sustain an Office 365 tenant and its users.

Audience Profile

Audience Profile

This course will provide experienced IT professionals with the training that they need to plan, configure, and manage an Office 365 environment. Students who attend this course are expected to have a fairly broad understanding of several on-premises technologies such as Domain Name System (DNS) and AD DS, and a general understanding of Exchange Server, Microsoft Lync Server or Skype for Business Server, and Microsoft SharePoint Server.

This course also is intended as preparation material for IT professionals who are looking to take the exams 70-346: Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements and 70-347: Enabling Office 365 Services to obtain the MCSA: Office 365 certification.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites

A minimum of two years of experience administering the Windows Server operating system, including Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2.

A minimum of one year of experience working with AD DS. A minimum of one year of experience working with name resolution, including DNS.

Experience working with certificates, including public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates.

Experience working with Windows PowerShell. Experience working with Exchange Server 2013 or later, Lync Server 2013 or Skype for Business Server 2015, and SharePoint Server 2013 or later is beneficial but not required.

Course Outline

This module reviews the features of Office 365 and identifies recent improvements to the service. Also it describes how to configure an Office 365 tenant and plan for a pilot deployment.

Lessons

Overview of Office 365

Provisioning an Office 365 tenant

Planning a pilot deployment

Lab : Provisioning Office 365

Configuring an Office 365 tenant

Configuring a custom domain

Exploring the Office 365 administrator interfaces

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the features and benefits of Office 365.

Provision new tenant accounts.

Plan a pilot deployment of Office 365.

Module 2: Managing Microsoft Office 365 users and groups

This module describes how to manage Office 365 users, groups, and licenses, and configure administrative access by using the Office 365 console and the Windows PowerShell command-line interface.

Lessons

Managing user accounts and licenses

Managing passwords and authentication

Managing security groups in Office 365

Managing Office 365 users and groups with Windows PowerShell

Configuring administrative access

Lab : Managing Office 365 users and passwords

Managing Office 365 users and licenses by using the Office 365 admin center

Managing Office 365 password policies

Lab : Managing Office 365 groups and administration

Managing Office 365 groups

Managing Office 365 users and groups by using Windows PowerShell

Configuring delegated administrators

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Manage user accounts and licenses by using the Microsoft Office 365 admin center.

Manage passwords and authentication.

Manage security and distribution groups by using the Office 365 admin center.

Manage Office 365 users and groups by using Windows PowerShell.

Configure administrative access.

Module 3: Configuring client connectivity to Microsoft Office 365

This module describes the different types of client software that you can use to connect to Office 365, and the infrastructure requirements that the clients need to meet to connect to Office 365. Also this teaches you how to configure different types of Office 365 clients.

Lessons

Planning for Office 365 clients

Planning connectivity for Office 365 clients

Configuring connectivity for Office 365 clients

Lab : Configuring client connectivity to Office 365

Configuring DNS records for Office 365 clients

Running the Office 365 connectivity analyzer tools

Connecting Office 2016 clients

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan for the deployment of Microsoft Office 365 clients.

Plan for, and troubleshoot, connectivity for Office 365 clients.

Configure connectivity for Office 365 clients.

Module 4: Planning and configuring directory synchronization

This module describes how to plan and configure directory synchronization between Azure AD and on-premises AD DS.

This module covers the planning process, how to make Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus directly available to end users, and how to deploy it as a managed package. Finally, this module covers how to set up Office telemetry so that administrators can keep track of how users are interacting with Microsoft Office.